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Moekanji

What is Moekanji?

Moekanji is a set of 87 illustrated cards to help you learn First Grade Kanji which include the “On” and “Kun” readings written in hiragana. First Grade Kanji is what elementary school children in Japan first learn. Retail price is 2,500 yen but many retailers are discounting up to 20% ^o^

Learn Japanese kanji the fun and moe way with Moekanji

Through my own experience of learning Japanese, I wanted to make Japanese learning more fun and developed the Hiragana learning series called Moekana [もえかな]. Thanks to you, we sold tens of thousands of Moekana packs worldwide.
Many of you asked for something to help you learn Kanji too - so here it is - Moekanji! [もえ漢字].
Kanji are the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language which you need to learn if you want to be proficient in the lingo.

This is the front and back of the instruction card that comes with each pack.

As you can see, knowledge of the basic Japanese syllabary hiragana is required to benefit from Moekanji. If you have not done so already, you can learn hiragana with Moekana.

I was considering showing the readings in romanized format but came to the conclusion that there is not much point learning kanji if you are not going to bother learn hiragana. Also, although Moekana was developed as a product aimed at foreigners learning Japanese, many Japanese parents bought Moekana for their kids to learn Hiragana and it even became the 2nd best selling anime product on Amazon Japan. Therefore, I've decided to keep the "kun" and "on" readings in hiragana - it caters for domestic folks in Japan and forces you to learn hiragana before you attempt kanji - because there is not much point learning kanji without hiragana!

And if you are wondering what "kun" and "on" readings are, Wikipedia has a thorough explanation on the differences in classification. But very simply put, they are just different ways of reading the same Kanji depending on the situation.

There are many flash cards on the market that are packed with information like Kanji stroke order and a barrage of compound words. Based on my own experience of learning Kanji, I felt that learning stroke order from the start slows down the learning of Kanji. Also, a barrage of compound words is not useful when you are just starting out to learn that kanji!

Moekanji follows the original design elements of the successful Moekana and focus on what you need to get up and running as soon as possible while fusing Japanese learning with Moe culture.

This photo shows the back n front of the Kanji List Card. The card lists all the kanji that Moekanji covers which are the First Grade Kanji that all elementary school kids learn in Japan.
Keep this card in your wallet and look at it when you have downtime waiting for a bus or train - I used to do something similar when I was learning Japanese.

As you can see from the layout of each card - you need to know hiragana to learn Kanji. You are not going to be able to learn Kanji effectively if you do not understand hiragana. Hiragana however is easy to learn especially with Moekana.

These two cards of Kizuna Yumeno and Chitose Shirasawa are not included in the pack and can currently only be obtained at the cons that we attend worldwide.
These are given away free with various purchases at our booths.

And this is how I started to learn kanji many many moons ago. I wrote down all the kanji I needed to learn and stuck these A3 sheets all over my walls at home.
At the time, I dropped the learning of Kanji stroke order as I wanted to learn as many as soon as possible.
If you are serious about learning Japanese then check out this post where I talk about all the techniques that I used to learn the lingo.

And if you are here for the first time wondering whether my level of Japanese is up to par to be developing Japanese learning products - I guess its good enough to work for the Japanese government ^^;

This is Moekana which is available now. Do remember that you need to understand hiragana if you are going to use Moekanji for learning Kanji.
The card quality of Moekanji is the same as Moekana which is the same as the many Japanese trading cards on the market - we use the same factories.

These cases are currently available at conventions that we attend. For the rest of this year we plan on attending AFA Indonesia, AFA Singapore, Comic Fiesta and will carry a limited amount of the cases.

Kinokuniya Los Angeles and Kuala Lumpur also carry the cases. Below are the contact details of Kinokuniya - contact them to see if they ship internationally.

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If you are still not sure whether Moekanji can help you with your studies then maybe just ask a friend who already has some - they join the tens of thousands of people worldwide who are using the series to learn Japanese the fun way ^o^